Ian McEwan: The Cockroach
„That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.“ There is no doubt that this very first sentence of „The Cockroach“ is
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Kategorie: Books
Juan Moreno: Tausend Zeilen Lügen
Bewegend, gut geschrieben und immer einzigartig – das waren die Reportagen, die Claas Relotius über Jahre hinweg für den Spiegel schrieb. Egal, wo er auf seinen Reisen Menschen begleitete, ihr Leben, ihr Schicksal auf mehreren
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Bücher meines Jahres 2018
Es ist wieder Zeit, Bilanz zu ziehen – in Form von Büchern, die ich im fast abgelaufenen Jahr 2018 gelesen habe. Darunter sind Neuerscheinungen genauso wie Bücher, die mir aus dem ein oder anderen Grund
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Matt Haig: Notes on a nervous planet
People have literally everything at their fingertips: news, music, libraries, the internet, family and friends. But never before in human history are so many people stressed by how fast the world around themselves is spinning,
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Celeste Ng: „The world is complicated“
Celeste Ng’s new novel „Little Fires Everywhere“ is just out in Germany where the American author has been on a press tour – and she found time to answer my questions. In „Little Fires Everywhere“
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John Green: Turtles all the way down
Some books leave you in wonder, in despair, in tears or in joy. And some books leave you thinking about the story you just finished. John Greens „Turtles all the way down“ is one of
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Sherlock – The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures
Über 2500 Ergebnisse erhält, wer bei Amazon nach Arthur Conan Doyle und Sherlock Holmes sucht. Weshalb also noch eine weitere englischsprachige Ausgabe? Die Lust, besonders schöne Bücher zu machen, kann es nicht gewesen sein, die
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Charlie Lovett: The Bookman’s Tale
Little is known about William Shakespeare, the playwright some consider the best ever, some think he has never lived. What if a bookseller found a book that could prove that Shakespeare not only lived but
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Matt Haig: How to Stop Time
Time travelling isn’t a new topic neither in films nor in literature. It seems that people have always been fascinated by stories about travelling back into history to meet people from the past and forward
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David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow
It is a novel. A fiction, not a documentary about the life of Alan Turing. This is important because people tend to take every word for granted, weighing it carefully, comparing it to proved facts
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